Thugs Bruiser and Rage: Does it really make a difference?

I've enjoyed leveling my thugs/dark up to lvl 35 last night and the additional powers and flair of the set have given me an enjoyable MM experience I haven't had since my bots/poison.

Other than the ever-dying arson, I can't seem to tell how much Fury my bruiser is gaining to notice a big difference in his attacks. I have tried monitoring Fury through his combat attributes but the bar never seems to go very high.

Can anyone offer any comments on this?

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Lvl 50's: Twilight Projections-Dark/Psychic Defender- Justice,
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Ogun Ajala -Fire/Shield Scrapper - Virtue,
Make You Smile -Thugs/Dark - Virtue
Kyuji Warrior - Fire/Trick Arrow Corruptor - Virtue

I just ignore the fact he has fury. If it builds up, great. But he's good either way.

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I hardly ever see his fury get over 50%, so it's clearly not as powerful as a real brute.

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I would imagine he can get his fury bar up to a decent point when fighting an AV.

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I've never really noticed it do much of anything, but I don't really monitor it either.

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you cant moinitor the pet combatattributes (damage, to hit chance, ...)
if you want to see them, you have to open the combat-attributes-window with rightclicking on the pet and getting combat info

otherwise the monitoring will only show your (damage, to hit chance, ...)

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His attack cycle is just plain too terrible to build and sustain a high amount of Fury - he spends too much time just standing there and waiting for his next attack to recharge.

This was made worse when they made +Recharge not affect pets anymore.

So yeah, I tend to pretend it doesn't even exist.

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Depending on what you have him doing Rage can build quite a bit...if you race him from mob to mob, or tank AV's/EB's with him. I use KoB as my metric to see how my rage is fairing. Make a note of the default dmg it deals, then compare it to when his rage should be built to a reasonable level.

I think it makes a huge difference. As you can see YMMV.

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